in a huge loss to Trump's police state, Facebook will NOT give in to Trump's demands for a back door to encrypted messages

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Facebook has rejected Attorney General William Barr’s plea for the social media giant to help law enforcement officials more easily access encrypted messages.

Giving authorities a “back door” into such protected messages would only create a vulnerability for others to exploit, the heads of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia.

“The ‘backdoor’ access you are demanding for law enforcement would be a gift to criminals, hackers and repressive regimes, creating a way for them to enter our systems and leaving every person on our platforms more vulnerable to real-life harm,” Will Cathcart and Stan Chudnovsky wrote in a letter Monday.

“It is simply impossible to create such a backdoor for one purpose and not expect others to try and open it,” they added.